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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

I was shopping with my husband at Michael's a few weeks ago. He finds me in the cake decorating section giggling hysterically. All I could do was point at the heart shaped cake pans & giggle-spurt "Pan-Wow!". :). Fortunately, he's been around me enough times while I've been reading Cake Wrecks to understand. He just shook his head & said "Cake Wrecks?". He he he!

I think you need a randomizer button at the very top of the website - "Show me a random wreck!" - and it will spit out something wrecky from your archive. Yep, random wreckyness. You could even have a random Sweet, just for people who need reassurance there are good bakers and decorators out there.

That first cake... I am as confused by it as I was the first time. However, now that I know there is at least one other Joe vs. the Volacno fan around here (looking at you, Barbara Anne) I will implement one of my favourite lines. "I have no response to that."

The dogs. What's with the dogs? I'm struggling to understand. And, even more, what are the little brown things in tiny candy cups surrounding thedog-table thing? Did the dogs do that? Is that why they are hiding? (Yes, I saw the 'dogs doo that' possibility, but refrained. Though not for long, apparently.)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she meant "bro"...I hope there's no word like that for a female. "Bra" would be stupid. And the clown?? Is he giving birth to another clown or does he have three legs or is that another dirty cake?

As long as we're all ("all"-ha!) talking about Joe vs Volcano stuff, MY favorite line was, "What's that, a teddy bear?".The sad owl-head: yet ANOTHER Godfather-esque, severed-head wannabe. And was he/it hyperventillating or something? The glass is all steamed-up and drippy-like.The pupcakes are kinda-sorta almost "cute", but the one furthest to the right needs to lose the false eyelashes.They make her look cheap.Best (?) for last: Bozo, there. I'm almost REALLY confused. Does he actually have three legs, or is he just happy to see me? =^e.e^=

I so rarely see the carrot jockeys en mass that I'm always awed when that photo pops up again. seriously, who doesn't giggle at that pic??

zoomom, I used that quote so much my family made me stop! how I ended up with a family that doesn't appreciate that flick is beyond me. sendingtheclowns, I liked the explanation that Joe had a "brain cloud." I'm pretty certain that's what most wreckerators have, too.

@Corax & Myra - trust me, plenty of us Wreckies are "that old". Ah, poor Simon - he once was a clever, sophisticated, yet easy electronic game to play and now he's just *simple* Simon, abandoned in the corner while kiddies rock on Bop IT! and Bop IT! XT, etc...

@Craig - snort! I love Groundhog Day w/Bill Murray. The Stargate episode which was 'Groundhog Day'ish is also very fun to watch... "COLONEL O'NEILL!" "What?! In the middle of my backswing?!"

This post reminded me of one of my favourite shows, "Bob's Burgers"; Bob and his hysterically weird daughter Louise like to get together and form/play The Burn Unit, which involves watching a channel for like three seconds, finding something to say something awful about, yelling "BUUUUURN!" and quickly changing the channel. "Oh wow, nice hat, lady-- oh, that's your hair? BUUUUUUUURN!" [click], etc.

My two best friends (three, including The Vulcan) like to get together with me every weekend and MST3K the hell outta deliciously bad movies; we have named ourselves The Burn Unit, in honour of BB, even though we watch the whole thing.

"Joe vs. the Volcano" is one of my all-time favorite movies, just about on par with "The Princess Bride". Sadly, I am usually surrounded by those who just don't get it. I should have known my fellow CW fans would appreciate it.

"Long ago, the delicate tangles of his hair... covered the emptiness of my hand"

And in honor of National Repeat Day, here it is again:

"Long ago, the delicate tangles of his hair... covered the emptiness of my hand"

By the way, "I'm a flibbertigibbet" (said with the back of my hand to the side of my mouth).

@ lisadh, who wrote:"By the way, "I'm a flibbertigibbet" (said with the back of my hand to the side of my mouth)."Could you be more specific, please? I tried doing that, with the back of my right hand against the right side of my mouth., and it didn't seem right. Same went for left hand against left side of mouth. Hey! I just figured it out! It DID work if I used the right hand up to the left side of my mouth, and the left hand up to the right side of my mouth. That's what you did, too, right??Next, should we try the "tongue-in-cheek" exercise?